Contrust and Kaltura in Le Web 08 Finals

Welcome to VC Cafe. If you’re new around here, you may want to subscribe to our feed and get daily updates for FREE. For the fifth year, Loïc Le Meur’s Paris-based Internet conference Le Web 08 will choose the most promising online ventures. Last year, two Israeli firms (Ply Media and GHost) snatched two out [...]

Bitesize Monday: Post Fourth Israel Headlines Roundup

The fourth of July came and gone as quickly as the fireworks show. Unfortunately, San Francisco was too foggy to see anything. Speaking of visibility, I put together a short list of recommended reads to kick off the week on the right foot:
Entrepreneurship 101:

One-person companies are earning upward of $1 million in revenue annually. How [...]

TWS2008 Crowns The 10 Most Promising Israeli Internet Startups

If you are running an internet startup in the US, chances are that you have been nominated or chosen for some kind of award in a startup competition in the past year. The same goes for Israel, but it happens less often and usually with limited visibilty from abroad.
Yaron Orenstein, fouder of the.co.ils (Hebrew only), [...]

Wikia and Kaltura Partner to Add Collaborative Video Capabilities to Wikia Communities

Lisa Bennett, Director of Public Relations & Marketing of Israel’s Kaltura.com, the first open source platform for video creation, management and collaboration, sent me the following announcement:
 
Wikia and Kaltura Partner to Add Collaborative Video Capabilities to Wikia Communities
Wikia deploys Kaltura’s open source MediaWiki Collaborative Video Extension, allowing users to collaborate in video and other forms [...]

Wrapping the Israeli internet scene in 2007

One of my favorite blogs in Hebrew, thecoils, has posted a comprehensive overview of the venture capital and M&A activity of Israeli companies and funds in 2007, as well as some predictions for 2008. For those who can’t read Hebrew, I translated and summarized the main points from the post and added a few bits [...]